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ChrisGilbert
at Sat Sep 23 14:55:31 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ChrisGilbert ]
on the Parthenogenisis stuff.
A lot of people have asked why is parthenogenisis only occuring in boas recently. Well, it is just that with homozygous morph females X whatever, you can tell in the babies. With something like a male recessive bred to a female normal, if parthenogenisis did occur we wouldn't know.
What we need to figure out is what causes parthenogenisis to occur, there must be some trigger. If we can figure this out we can replicate recessive morphs in the F1, and we can stop the things like you mentioned from occuring.
I have heard others say what you did on the first SM, I never really believed it, but there was no other answer I could see. This one just hit me. I don't even know if it is possible for a mutation in the heterozygous state to mutate on its own and replicate in the offspring. Wouldn't that mean that for that gene the baby didn't get anything from the mom on that allele? I don't think that is possible, but I also never understood how this would work in theory also.
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Good point... - ChrisGilbert, Sat Sep 23 14:55:31 2006